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Patented July 1, 1890.

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VENDING MACHINE.

No. 431,083. Patented July 1, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFIC PHILIP L. SYLVESTER, OF AUBURN, NEV YORK.

VENDING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 431,083, dated July 1, 1890.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PHILIP L. SYLVESTER, of the city of Auburn, New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vending-Machines, of which the following is a description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

In this class of machines it is desirable that the object sold shall be taken from its own package, and in case the object isacigar this is a necessary requirement. I have therefore sought to construct a machine which will do this; and my invention consistsin certain new constructions, arrangements, and combinations of mechanism adapted to accomplish this result, as well as in certain actuating mechanisms for machines of this class,which mechanisms are not limited to' apparatus within the above requirement, but which may also be used in connection with vending-machines which do not take the object sold from its package, but from a suitable hopper or other receptacle within the machine or annexed thereto.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side view of my machine. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section thereof. Fig. 3 is a view from the front after removal of the front plate, which is shown in Fig. 4.- reversed to show its attachments. Fig. 5 is a plan, and Fig. 6 is a side view of the carrier.

Its operation is as follows: Within the case i A, upon the frame B, the package 0 is secured.

In this case the package is taken to be a box of cigars, and a thumb-screw a retains it in position by means of a stop I). An actuatinghandle 0, pivoted at (Z, is provided with a curved arm 6, while a spring f tends to hold it in raised position.

A coin conveyer or duct D is arranged of such form and size as will permit the proper predetermined coin to pass therethrough and effect a lodgment within the recessed disk borne upon a swinging arm h, pivoted at 'L', and held in its forward position normally against the face-plate k by a spring Z. The disk 9 is provided with an opening sufficient to pass the curved arm 2 through when not obstructed by a coin, the faceplate 7.: being perforated for the same purpose; but when the proper predetermined coin passes through Application filed December 30, 1889. Serial No. 335,377- (No model.)

the duct D and lodges in the recessed disk g the downward movement of the actuatinghandle 0 causes the curved arm e to push disk and coin away from the plate 7t", as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2.

Since the are of revolution of the disk g is about the center 2' and the arc of revolution of the actuating extremity of the arm 6 is about the center (1 remote from 2', the point of contact will move upward as the disk g swings in its arc, and when the revolution has proceeded a short distance (about as represented by the dotted lines of Fig. 2) the point of contact of the end of 0 moves off from the coin, which is liberated and fallsinto a suitable receptacle m, while the force exerted through c is continued by the bearing of its extremity upon the disk 9 above the position lately occupied by said coin.

The inward movement of the disk 9 actuates a carrier F, which is secured to the aforesaid swinging arm h, carrying it forward into the box of cigars shown in the figure, in which the sharp wedge-shaped or tapering form of the said carrier contributes to its easy entrance, and also agitates the cigars, thereby breaking up any bridging which may have occurred among them. A recess G in said carrier affords a lodgment for one or more specimens (in the figures one is shown) of the article to be sold, as has been predetermined, and upon reversal of the motion of the swinging arm h the carrier F is retracted, with its charge, through an aperture previously made in the end of the package aforesaid until the charge clears the edge of the base plate H,wl1en said charge drops freely from the carrier F and emerges from the machine. To permit the charge to drop from the carrier F in this manner, the receptacle or charging-recess G of the said carrier is in the form of my invention herein shown constructed with a partly-open bottom, as represented in Fig. 5.

In case it is desirable to remove the entire end or side of the aforesaid package, a sliding screen or supporting-wall a, working upon the standards 0 0, is adjusted to the proper width of opening required for the admission and retraction of the carrier F and its charge, with proper retention of the remainder of the contents of said package.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a vending-machine, the combination, with a tapering or wedge-shaped carrier provided with a charging recess or receptacle, of a coin-duct and an operating device to move said carrier when a suitable coin has been inserted in said duct.

2. In a vending-machine, the combination, I

with a tapering or wedge-shaped carrier F, adapted to be forced into the bottom of a package containing the articles to be sold, and provided with a charging recess or receptacle G, of the coin-duct D, the swinging arm 72,, having coin-lodging part or disk g at ing-recess G, having a partly-open bottom,of the swinging arm h, having the coin-lodging part or disk g, the coin-duct D, terminating at said part or disk, and the actuating-handle 0, having the curved arm 6 to engage the coin and operate the said swinging arm and the carrier connected therewith.

4. In a vending-machine, the combination of the carrier F, the adjustable retainingscreen a, and reciprocating mechanism whereby said carrier is actuated.

5. In a vending-machine, the combination of an actuating mechanism pivoted so as to describe in operation a circular arc, and a coin-holder g, so suspended as to describe in operation a circular arc from its pivotalpoint 1', which two arcs of revolution are about distinct and separated centers, as (Z and z.

PHILIP L. SYLVESTER. \Vitnesses:

GEORGE W. NELLIs, FREDERICK I. ALLEN. 

